(via Christina Norton, Bradley University) Are you new to serving distance and online students and want to expand your professional knowledge/skills? Or are you an experienced librarian willing to share your knowledge to help others develop their skills in this area? The ACRL DOLS (Distance & Online Learning Section) Mentoring and Networking Committee invites you…
Category: Calls and Requests
User for nominations, proposals and submissions alone with a category (when available) for the organization making the call or request.
Call for Participation: Survey on Best Practices for Course Reserves Service Workflow
(via Sean Murphy, Illinois Institute of Technology) If your institution has a Course Reserves collection or department, please consider submitting a response to the IIT Paul Galvin Library’s Course Reserves Survey! *Galvin Library Course Reserves Survey* *This survey’s results are not being collected for the purposes of research and will not be published. Survey responses…
Call for Proposals: Entrepreneurs & Libraries Conference (Online Wed., Nov. 1, 1:00-4:00 PM CDT)–Deadline Mon., Aug. 14
(via Angel Truesdale, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) The call for proposals is now open for the Entrepreneurs & Libraries Conference. The meeting will take place online Wednesday, November 1, from 1:00 to 4:00 PM CDT. The Entrepreneurs & Libraries Conference explores how libraries and library workers support entrepreneurship in their communities and campuses. Entrelib continues to…
Call for Participation: ALA RUSA STARS International Interlibrary Loan Committee Survey–Deadline Thurs., Aug. 31
(via Xuan (Lily) Pang, University of Florida) The American Library Association RUSA STARS International Interlibrary Loan Committee is gathering information to better understand international interlibrary loan (ILL). Please help us by completing this survey. Responses from all libraries are encouraged, regardless of whether you borrow or lend internationally. If you are a National Library, we would greatly…
Reminder: Proposals Deadline Extended for Midwest Chapter/MLA Annual Meeting (Online Wed., Oct. 11 – Fri., Oct. 13)–Now Due Mon., July 31
(via the Network of the National Library of Medicine – Region 6) The Professional Practice Committee of the Midwest Chapter/MLA (Medical Library Association) invites proposals for contributed papers, posters, and lightning sessions for the 2023 Midwest Annual Meeting themed “Explore the Possibilities”. The meeting will be held virtually October 11-13 (Wednesday-Friday). Papers will have 15-20 minutes…
Call for Authors and Editors: Medical Library Association Books–Deadline Thurs., Aug. 17
(via the Medical Library Association) As part of our mission to foster excellence among health sciences library and information professionals, MLA co-publishes full-length books on a wide variety of topics of interest to health information professionals. Books are published in cooperation with Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. The following titles (published in 2023 and 2022)…
Call for Proposals: LibLearnX 2024 Conference (Fri., Jan. 19, to Mon., Jan. 22, in Baltimore, MD)–Deadline Mon., Aug. 7
(via Hillary Pearson, American Library Association) With Annual barely in the rearview mirror, ALA is already gearing up for LibLearnX in January, 2024! The event will take place in Baltimore, MD, from Friday, January 19, to Monday, January 22. 2024. The Call for Education Program Proposals is open now through Monday, August 7, 2023. There are four types of…
Reminder: Proposals for Florida Chapter of ACRL’s 2023 Virtual Annual Conference (Fri., Oct. 20) Due Tues., Aug. 1
(via Sarah Hammill, Florida International University) The Florida Chapter of ACRL (FACRL) is currently seeking proposals for presentations and poster sessions for the 2023 FACRL Virtual Annual Conference, to take place online Friday, October 20. The theme is “Where do we go from here? Best Practices & Trends in Academic Libraries”. This year’s call for proposals…
Call for Judges: Soon to Be Famous Illinois Author Project
(via Gwen Gregory, Northern Illinois University) The Soon to Be Famous Illinois Author Project needs your help! The Project needs judges for adult and young adult fiction by self-published authors. Judges will be required to read six to 10 books over a period of at least 12 weeks beginning in August and fill out evaluation forms on…
Call for Participation: Survey on Open Pedagogy in Academic Library Instruction–Deadline Wed., Aug. 9
(via Elena Azadbakht–University of Nevada, Reno) We would like to invite all current academic librarians who provide information literacy instruction and/or support open education in any capacity at a higher education institution in the United States or Canada to participate in a study to assess knowledge and support of open pedagogy. Fellow librarians at the…